Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,493 6,305 7,194
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.98% 23.24% 19.62%
As % of the General category 34.41% 36.44% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,397 4,245 5,003
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 113 223
10th Percentile £16.08 £16.43 £13.34
25th Percentile £20.31 £20.86 £17.25
Median hourly rate £41.13 £35.89 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.59% +8.76% -1.15%
75th Percentile £57.85 £63.75 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.25 £69.70
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £32.41 £32.20
% change year-on-year +30.54% +0.63% -0.92%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,681 17,301 21,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.17% 63.77% 57.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,862 11,088 13,439
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -3.85% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 896 1,708
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.24 £16.48 £16.06
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.75 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -21.16% +11.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.20 £56.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £26.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +24.53% -19.44% +7.71%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,094 £581 -3.19% 2,351
North of England 0 1,303 £500 +6.61% 967
South East 0 731 £500 -4.76% 1,023
North West +3 684 £475 +5.56% 487
Midlands +1 662 £500 +11.11% 573
Yorkshire 0 569 £525 +7.69% 359
West Midlands +1 489 £500 +1.63% 285
South West -4 381 £525 -4.55% 356
East of England +4 209 £530 -7.83% 389
East Midlands -1 165 £500 +15.61% 287
North East -19 51 £500 +13.96% 129
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 291 (3.43%) Confluence
2 203 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 69 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 49 (0.58%) Apache
6 38 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) SAS
8 28 (0.33%) CMS
9 27 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 14 (0.16%) IIS
12 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.082%) Appian
15 5 (0.059%) Hyperledger
15 5 (0.059%) WebLogic
16 4 (0.047%) HCL Notes
16 4 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 451 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 146 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 60 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
8 5 (0.059%) Sketch
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.047%) Trello
10 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 322 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.31%) NetSuite
3 104 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
4 90 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
6 66 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 53 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
8 52 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
9 45 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
9 45 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
10 38 (0.45%) Aladdin
10 38 (0.45%) SAP FI
11 30 (0.35%) SAP CO
12 29 (0.34%) Workday HCM
13 28 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
15 26 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
16 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
17 21 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,351 (15.91%) Azure
2 983 (11.57%) AWS
3 573 (6.75%) Power Platform
4 437 (5.15%) GCP
5 291 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (3.41%) SaaS
7 248 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
8 240 (2.83%) GitHub
9 189 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 175 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 174 (2.05%) Snowflake
12 133 (1.57%) Serverless
13 112 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 97 (1.14%) Power Automate
15 96 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
16 93 (1.10%) dbt
17 91 (1.07%) OCI
18 89 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
19 87 (1.02%) OpenShift
20 86 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 167 (1.97%) Firewall
2 135 (1.59%) Network Security
3 83 (0.98%) VPN
4 79 (0.93%) DNS
5 60 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.57%) WAN
7 42 (0.49%) BGP
8 37 (0.44%) SSL
9 35 (0.41%) DHCP
10 34 (0.40%) LAN
11 32 (0.38%) HTTP
12 29 (0.34%) Multicast
13 28 (0.33%) OSPF
14 23 (0.27%) MPLS
15 22 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 22 (0.26%) Internet
16 17 (0.20%) VLAN
17 16 (0.19%) DMZ
17 16 (0.19%) Wireless
18 15 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (5.75%) Power BI
2 246 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 231 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 166 (1.95%) Metadata
5 159 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 127 (1.50%) Tableau
8 119 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 75 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 73 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.79%) Oracle Database
12 61 (0.72%) Big Data
13 59 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 50 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 49 (0.58%) Power Query
15 49 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 45 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 43 (0.51%) Delta Lake
18 41 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
19 37 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 607 (7.15%) JIRA
2 222 (2.61%) Git
3 155 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.05%) GitLab
5 54 (0.64%) JUnit
6 44 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 39 (0.46%) Selenium
8 27 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 25 (0.29%) Postman
10 23 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.26%) ERwin
11 22 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.25%) Maven
13 19 (0.22%) MLflow
14 17 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
14 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 2,482 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 1,602 (18.86%) Banking
3 1,172 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 485 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 394 (4.64%) Legal
6 340 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 317 (3.73%) Investment Banking
8 312 (3.67%) Front Office
9 296 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 293 (3.45%) Retail
11 225 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 201 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 158 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 158 (1.86%) Local Government
14 154 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 141 (1.66%) Billing
16 136 (1.60%) General Ledger
17 133 (1.57%) Marketing
18 126 (1.48%) Law
19 122 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,247 (14.68%) Analyst
2 954 (11.23%) Senior
3 932 (10.97%) Lead
4 861 (10.14%) Developer
5 796 (9.37%) Architect
6 633 (7.45%) Business Analyst
7 620 (7.30%) Project Manager
8 535 (6.30%) Consultant
9 301 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
10 286 (3.37%) Data Engineer
11 225 (2.65%) Senior Manager
12 203 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
13 182 (2.14%) Accountant
14 181 (2.13%) Java Developer
15 175 (2.06%) Data Analyst
16 166 (1.95%) IT Manager
17 165 (1.94%) Software Engineer
18 164 (1.93%) Programme Manager
19 160 (1.88%) Finance Manager
20 157 (1.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (3.17%) REST
2 256 (3.01%) .NET
3 251 (2.96%) React
4 234 (2.76%) Kafka
5 193 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 179 (2.11%) Middleware
7 162 (1.91%) Spring
8 153 (1.80%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.40%) RESTful
10 109 (1.28%) Redux
11 108 (1.27%) PySpark
12 106 (1.25%) Node.js
13 85 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.94%) JSON
15 78 (0.92%) OAuth
16 71 (0.84%) XML
17 60 (0.71%) CSS
18 58 (0.68%) .NET Framework
18 58 (0.68%) SOAP
19 57 (0.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 416 (4.90%) Onboarding
2 376 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 362 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 239 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 206 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 194 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 163 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 162 (1.91%) Fixed Income
9 159 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 158 (1.86%) Derivative
11 149 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 145 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 138 (1.62%) Virtual Team
14 118 (1.39%) Equities
14 118 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 116 (1.37%) AI Agents
16 104 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 99 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
18 98 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
19 91 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 298 (3.51%) Windows
2 262 (3.08%) Linux
3 142 (1.67%) Unix
4 65 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.45%) Solaris
6 36 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 35 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 29 (0.34%) Android
8 29 (0.34%) zOS
9 26 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.21%) AIX
11 9 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 8 (0.094%) VMS
13 6 (0.071%) HPUX
13 6 (0.071%) SUSE
14 5 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.047%) MVS
16 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,875 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,753 (20.64%) Agile
3 1,198 (14.11%) Migration
4 1,113 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
5 1,014 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 971 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 933 (10.99%) AI
8 914 (10.76%) DevOps
9 887 (10.44%) CI/CD
10 859 (10.11%) Analytics
11 833 (9.81%) ERP
12 793 (9.34%) Decision-Making
13 732 (8.62%) Roadmaps
14 722 (8.50%) Validation
15 703 (8.28%) Data Modelling
16 691 (8.14%) Project Management
17 656 (7.72%) User Acceptance Testing
18 633 (7.45%) Change Management
19 610 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
20 556 (6.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (13.51%) SQL
2 1,032 (12.15%) Python
3 575 (6.77%) Java
4 357 (4.20%) C#
5 247 (2.91%) TypeScript
6 239 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 207 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 86 (1.01%) Bash
9 81 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 71 (0.84%) Go
11 69 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 67 (0.79%) C++
13 62 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 59 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 49 (0.58%) VBA
16 43 (0.51%) Scala
17 40 (0.47%) Bicep
18 34 (0.40%) Apex Code
18 34 (0.40%) Kotlin
19 25 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 673 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 670 (7.89%) Degree
3 481 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 215 (2.53%) PMP
5 190 (2.24%) ACCA
6 188 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 167 (1.97%) CIMA
8 156 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 147 (1.73%) CISSP
10 119 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 103 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 87 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 83 (0.98%) CISM
14 75 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 65 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
16 54 (0.64%) AWS Certification
17 45 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
18 42 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 33 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 362 (4.26%) QA
3 321 (3.78%) PMO
4 268 (3.16%) GDPR
5 156 (1.84%) NIST
6 127 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 102 (1.20%) IFRS
8 97 (1.14%) SLA
9 94 (1.11%) Accessibility
10 92 (1.08%) GRC
11 77 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 59 (0.69%) GAAP
12 59 (0.69%) ISO 20022
13 53 (0.62%) PCI DSS
14 40 (0.47%) SEPA
15 36 (0.42%) Solvency II
16 34 (0.40%) NCSC
17 29 (0.34%) PSD2
18 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
19 25 (0.29%) COBIT
System Software
1 249 (2.93%) Docker
2 190 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 58 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.29%) vSphere
6 19 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) RACF
8 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.14%) NFS
11 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.071%) KVM
13 5 (0.059%) GPFS
13 5 (0.059%) IAG
13 5 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.035%) ACF2
15 3 (0.035%) GridGain
15 3 (0.035%) SRDF
16 2 (0.024%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 376 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 273 (3.21%) Terraform
3 145 (1.71%) Ansible
4 83 (0.98%) Grafana
5 73 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 64 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.59%) SCCM
8 47 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.31%) Control-M
10 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.19%) vRealize
12 14 (0.16%) Nessus
13 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (0.15%) Argo
13 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
14 12 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.13%) CASB
15 11 (0.13%) Puppet
16 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,097 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 710 (8.36%) Oracle
3 659 (7.76%) SAP
4 309 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 259 (3.05%) Databricks
6 208 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 183 (2.15%) Google
8 123 (1.45%) Workday
9 118 (1.39%) VMware
10 114 (1.34%) Splunk
11 111 (1.31%) IBM
12 94 (1.11%) Cisco
13 90 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 61 (0.72%) Citrix
15 60 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 56 (0.66%) Sage
17 54 (0.64%) Ariba
17 54 (0.64%) Bloomberg
18 48 (0.57%) Informatica
19 46 (0.54%) Murex